Active Scammer Alert

I sale a lot of items on Craigslist besides Ham Gear and have had many of these scammers contact me.
I let them send me their fake cashiers checks (they overnight them) and claim that I have deposited them and that they have cleared my bank.
(I drag this out a little to make the squirmy.) I then tell them that I am going to send the money to Their Shipper but drag that out a little while to. I then tell them that I sent the money western union and they ask for the number of the money order, I ask if I can just send a picture of it and they say yes, then I send them a picture of a banana or something. others I tell I got intoxicated and spent the money at a girly bar. some even call me on VOIP and we have delightful conversations. I have collected over 30 fake checks this way. "advert" is one of the many tell tell words they use. Please be careful all.

More than likely If you cannot have a phone conversation with them then they are not legitimate.

Heads up - our infamous early morning scammer has gotten better at photoshop. He's trying very hard to mimic natural appearing hand written calls, even trying to fit them under parts of the equipment for sale.

Here is today's faked picture, then the original picture previously posted by a VK ham on a VK website. (The call in the picture is hijacked, obviously.)

The original was found by dragging and dropping the scam picture into a Google images search.

Heads up - our infamous early morning scammer has gotten better at photoshop. He's trying very hard to mimic natural appearing hand written calls, even trying to fit them under parts of the equipment for sale.

Here is today's faked picture, then the original picture previously posted by a VK ham on a VK website. (The call in the picture is hijacked, obviously.)

I have been requested to send pictures of my for sale equipment with the potential buyer callsign written next to it, I thought something was wrong so the first time that I have replied, I unfortunately complied but added my call sign and the date, never heard back. The very next day another potential buyer is asking me the same thing, this time I said no, I told the guy I would write any code word of his choosing but no callsign, never heard back from him...

I don't know if that approach was discussed in the past in this thread but I will keep an eye open to make sure the picture of my radio does not end up for sale here from a fraudulent member.